From: "Andrey Falko" <ma3oxuct@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] get rid of xf86-video-* drivers
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 16:12:27 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <350fc7cf0810091612w2ee50fc3oc64d20ce65ecf60a@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <27060.70228.qm@web33808.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 6:52 AM, Pawel K <pawlaczus@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello
>
> I would like to get rid of all unnecessary x11-drivers/xf86-video-*
> packages.
> I do NOT want to migrate to "Modular X".
>
> I set my video card in /etc/make.conf as follows:
> VIDEO_CARDS="i810"
>
> What should I do now. Just "emerge --unmerge" on each unnecessary package ?
> Is it sufficient for emerge to NOT to install drivers on an upgrade xorg in
> the future.
>
> Thanks for answer.
>
>
>
I would just do the following:
emerge --depclean world -a
revdep-rebuild -a
--depclean will remove packages that were brought in as dependencies,
but no longer are dependencies. revdep-rebuild will make sure that
nothing got removed by revdep-rebuild that should not have been
removed.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-09 23:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-09 13:52 [gentoo-user] get rid of xf86-video-* drivers Pawel K
2008-10-09 14:00 ` Sascha Hlusiak
2008-10-09 16:53 ` Erik Hahn
2008-10-09 15:04 ` Norberto Bensa
2008-10-09 15:40 ` Erik Hahn
2008-10-09 15:43 ` Mike
2008-10-09 21:37 ` Willie Wong
2008-10-09 21:42 ` Mike
2008-10-09 22:52 ` Alan McKinnon
2008-10-09 23:03 ` Neil Bothwick
2008-10-09 23:04 ` Robert Bridge
2008-10-09 23:21 ` Willie Wong
2008-10-10 6:22 ` HTML emails was: " Stroller
2008-10-09 23:12 ` Andrey Falko [this message]
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